On December 22, 2001—just months after the 9/11 attacks—Richard Reid boarded American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami with homemade bombs hidden in his shoes.
During the flight, Reid tried to detonate his shoes, but he struggled to light the fuse. Crew members and passengers noticed and restrained him.
The plane diverted to Logan International Airport in Boston, and Massachusetts State Police officers took Reid into custody. Reid told FBI agents that he made the shoes himself.
This is the pair of shoes [Richard] Reid—also known as the “shoe bomber”—tried to detonate. FBI bomb techs determined that the shoes contained about 10 ounces of explosive material.
They don’t want actual security. They want perceived terror and a populace that is used to being forced to do uncomfortable things that they know are pointless.
Covid proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt. I’m old enough to remember the manufactured hysteria over swine flu, and SARS. It’s like they kept trying every ten years or so and finally found a populous where a majoritt would buy into that horseshit.
OK boomer